Advanced Search
There are a number of systems and processes working behind the scenes to support PastView’s Search facility, making it both rigorous and robust. This makes use of:
Attribute Sets & Attributes - the different terms used to describe your items to drill down to the most relevant matches.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) & Handwritten Text Transcription (HTR) - software searches documents for any given text, accurately retrieving and matching data within your collections.
Automatic Audio Transcription (AAT) - automatically transcribing all audio speech so words and phrases can be searched and revealed.
Synonym Search - alternative phrases and spellings to identify relevant matches.
Data can also be specifically tailored to provide advanced search options specific to collection type. For example, it might be preferable to use metadata, such as Name, D.O.B, and/or Regiment Number to explore collections that focus on people. Or, it might be preferable to use metadata such as Issue Date, Series, or Year for magazines.
Related Services
Digitisation - Prime content for PastView integration
Digitisation converts your physical content into digital format, priming it for successful integration into the PastView platform and opening up opportunities for online access and discovery, providing the opportunity to make your collections fully available through a comprehensive search facility that enable the items in within your collection to be drilled down to the most relevant results, at the mere touch of a button. We offer unrivalled quality as industry leaders in the expert scanning and indexing of all material types, whether old, rare, precious or fragile items.
Data Capture - Enhance your digital searchability
Digitisation places your physical content into a format perfect for capturing the valuable data contained within. Through a range of data capture services, typed and handwritten textual details from your archives can be captured and used in a variety of ways, seamlessly imported into your PastView platform for instant and comprehensive searchability.